Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Colchians

    group · 4 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    the Colchians · dark-faced Colchians · heralds of the Colchians · near-by Colchians

    in the texts

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    People of Colchis, first opposed militarily and then involved in local negotiations near Trapezus.

    for we shall find the mountain hard to traverse at some points and easy at others;
    chapter 4
    At this place was a great mountain, and upon this mountain the Colchians were drawn up in line of battle.
    book 5
    Now Cheirisophus and Xenophon and the peltasts with them got beyond the wings of the enemy’s line in their advance;
    chapter 4

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    A people living by the Phasis whom Herodotus argues descend from soldiers left behind by Sesostris, based on physical resemblance and shared customs with the Egyptians.

    For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians;
    the distinction between cause and effect is only o
    Listen to something else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians:
    chapter 2
    that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do not circumcise their children.
    chapter 2

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The people of Colchis, ruled by Aeetes, confronted by the Argonauts on their arrival.

    And then the Argonauts came to Phasis, where they clashed with the dark-faced Colchians in the realm of Aeetes himself.
    chapter 4

    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    A Pontic people associated in legend and myth (e.g. Medea).

    nothing there has any warmth except savagery — that savagery, of course, which gave the stage its fables of the sacrifices of the Tauri, the loves of the Colchians, and the crosses of the Caucasus.
    book 1